Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes

My wife had her drivers’ test the other day. She got 8 out of 10. The other 2 guys jumped clear.

Jack Roy

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• Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

  

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• Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

  

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• I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.

  

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• When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

  

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• The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

  

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• Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

  

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• No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

  

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• I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.

  

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• I choose to focus on the positive.

  

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• I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

  

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• Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

  

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• My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

  

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• You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.

  

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• We grow small trying to be great.

  

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• I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.

  

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• Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

  

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• When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

  

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• I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

  

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• When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.

  

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• I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.

  

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• When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beautiful clip of Billie Holiday playing with a bassist, a pianist and Gerry Mulligan, who was a friend of mine, on baritone sax. At one point, she looks over at Gerry, and they just smile. When those moments happen, it's just lovely.

  

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• My wife had her drivers’ test the other day. She got 8 out of 10. The other 2 guys jumped clear.

  

  Jack Roy
  • She
  • Wife
  • My Wife